FORTY-eight hours has done what two yearscould not: delivered promises that the long-stalledrenovation of the country’s principal airport willrestart in a matter of months.Under...
FREE after nearly 18 years of being held in U.S.and Mexican prisons on drug-trafficking charges,Danny Fowlie, at one time Pavones’ biggest landownerand employer in...
With President Abel Pacheco riding in economyclass and canceling trips to Europe for fearof more accusations of corruption, some legislatorsare criticizing the strict anti-corruption...
PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco, 71, was hospitalizedfor three days this week because of problems withhigh blood pressure. Doctors described thePresident’s condition as “stable” throughout his...
COSTA Rican soccer players, TV personalitiesand even politicians will strut thecatwalk next week dressed in the finest bydesigner Oscar de la Renta in a...
WHILE theGrand Finals ofthe nine-month-longannual countrywidetournamentCircuito Nacionalde Surfwent off last weekendat Playa Hermosa’sLa Curva,on the centralPacific coast, in afairly typical fashion,the event was,in essence,...
IT was Sunday morning, and the soundof church bells was muddled by a combustiblegrowl and the kind of rhythmichonking usually reserved for soccer wins.A...
KEEP your eyespeeled and your earsopen for a radioshow called “Pelandoel Ojo” (Peelingthe Eye.) You’rebound to hear it emanatingfrom buses,taxis, cars, shopsand homes betweenthe...
DAYS after the calm on Monteverde’ssurface was rippled by abloody bank robbery, 28-hour hostagecrisis and showdown with the police,members of the mountain communityand haven...
